Credit Unions dates back to community-based, co-operative banking thatarose in Germany in the nineteenth century. In Canada, the first adherents gathered in Quebec; the caisses populaires were begun by Alphonse Desjardins in 1900. At a recent congress of the World Council of Credit Unions, in Vancouver, B.C. over 2,000 delegates from 85 countries represented 36,000 credit unions with 90 million members and $380 billion (US) is assets. As this book shows, groth has not always been easy; credit unions aroundthe world took hold in a variety of social, political and cultural systems.
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Dr. Ian MacPherson grew up on a farm near Ottawa, Ontario. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario and is now Dean of Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Victoria, B.C. Ianhas spent 25 years active in co-operatives and credit unions. He has chaired consumer, child-care and health co-ops, local credit unions and B.C. CentralCredit Union, and was the founding president of the Canadian Co-operativeAssociation. Internationally, he served five years on the Executive Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance.
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